Quotes About Creative

Now I'm back in LA, it's high time to finish a little something I've been working on.

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

When you want to have entertainment, it must be a waste of time. I don't like that. I don't like improvisation being pointless.

By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.

A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.

In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.

Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.

The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.

Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to do it all the time.

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

No one, especially not Birkhoff himself, would claim that the intricacies of aesthetic pleasure could be reduced entirely to a mere formula. However, in Birkhoff's words, In the inevitable analytic accompaniment of the creative process, the theory of aesthetic measure is capable of performing a double service: it gives a simple, unified account of the aesthetic experience, and it provides means for the systematic analysis of typical aesthetic fields.

In the absence of role models for the new feminine in our culture, the Goddess speaks through dreams and creative imagination, giving guidance to those who chose to listen.

Right now, a defiant, young, creative generation of Mexican chefs like Eduardo are performing some of the most exciting new cooking anywhere on earth—a mixing of the very old and traditional, with the very new